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Knock Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4038
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4038 (4038)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gordon
- National Grid reference
- NT 6163 4411
- Latitude
- 55.68897
- Longitude
- -2.61188
- Altitude
- 272 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.53 ha
- Footprint
- 0.99 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1955); Other (1963); Other (1979); Other (1987); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4440
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57389
- National record
- record NT 64 SW 8; monument 57389
- Wikidata
- Q31107169
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1895) 'The forts of Selkirk, the Gala Water, the Southern slopes of the Lammermoors, and the north of Roxburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 29 (1894-50), 108-79
- RCAHMS (1909) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. First report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick. HMSO: Edinburgh.
- RCAHMS (1915) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Sixth report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick (Revised Issue). HMSO: Edinburgh